VT Mee listed far more advantages of VT off the top of his head, and he was right about all of them. It's just that most people are too lazy to simply click on the provided, accurate link to the post on the VT forum. He's dead, they say.
Here's why I've never played VT:
- When I went to the VT website, I didn't understand anything at all. Yes, I'm lazy, and sometimes it's easier for me to click the red cross than to spend hours figuring out a bunch of symbols, but that doesn't change the fact that there's absolutely NOTHING written there about the differences from SOD. There are footnotes about changes in new patches, but that doesn't tell me anything.
- I have no idea how to install it, and there's nothing about it on the website either. There's a link to a 20MB version of VT, but where am I supposed to put it? On Heroes? What will happen to my SOD version in that case? Will I be able to switch between versions, or will I have to install a new Heroes for SOD afterwards? I have no desire to test all of this and check it, especially considering the opinions of many respected Heroes players about VT.
- Where can I find out what a GM overhaul is, how auctions work, what VT under SOD, full FT, etc. are? Maybe it's somewhere on the website, but it's probably classified and kept in a safe, and the keys to the safe are with the keeper of traditions, who no one has ever seen.
- If there was information, there would be interest, especially since VT is supposedly so great. But since there's no information, people watch Eurovision instead of opera.
The whole point doesn't even relate to the topic, VT or SOD; it's just the perspective of a "new school" player, and I think there will be others like that.